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Tuesday, July 16, 1974
University Daily Kausan
KANSAN
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Rocks in Inge's World
Rocks are a central concern in the plays of William Inge, according to Herbert Scott, professor of geology.
Scott spoke last night to an estimated crowd of eight persons in Murphy Hall about "Rocks in the World: Sedimentary to gneous."
"Igee was a very sensitive man," Scott said. "Traces of stratigraphy and erosion can be seen throughout his plays."
For example, Scott said most residents feature a family near the point of intersection.
"This is erosion," Scott said.
Inge's characters were built on layers of American heritage, Scott
said, from the Puritan ethic to the American Dream.
"This," he said, "indicates Inge's grasp of stratigraphy."
Scott conceded, however, that Inge may not have been aware of all the intricate parallels between his plays and the study of rocks.
Steven Lewis
BY NICHOLAS VON HOFFMAN King Features Simplifies
Men of Money Upset by Inflation
WASHINGTON—For the men of money—bankers, managers of the great investment trusts, the underwriters who arrange the sales of new issues of stocks and bonds, the investors who provide funds when you to invest—for all of them this may be the most harrowing summer since 1929. These are people who crave certainty, who understand the importance of repeating pattern to their columns of numbers. They put their valables in boxes called sales and put words like GUARANTEE, FIDELITY, TRUST and LIABILITY in the titles of their companies' names.
This summer, however, certainly has gone flooey. Terrible things are happening, and they know neither the cause nor the remedy.
"We've had tight-money markets before, most recently in 1966 and the 1968-70 period, but these were minor inconveniences compared with what we see today," one economist said. "We've had very skritty about the use of their names. 'In the past we did not have inflation to
worry about. Today every important lender to the bond market is terrified by inflation. We've never had so critical a situation before, and what's worse, no solutions are in sight.
A BOND should be the safest thing in the world, because buying one is lending money to a company or an organ of government that is legally obliged to pay it back before anybody else gets paid; but a few days ago Columbia Gas Systems, Inc., a first-rate utility company from the point of view of profits, couldn't sell $50 million in gas and paying 13 per cent. No takers would be buyers were afraid that inflation would have eaten up their money by the time the issue matured in 16 years.
A few days later the City of New York withdrew an offering of a series of tax-exempt bonds worth $33 million because it believed that the rate that would have meant New York would have to pay $254 million for use of the money. The city says it will borrow the money on a short-term basis and offer the bonds in short-term loans carry much higher interest rates and nobody knows when things are going to look better.
If they don't get better, New York will have to pay these interest rates and raise the taxes. The other choice is to forego the schools and subways the money was destined to pay for and the jobs of the people who would have built them. The same is with Louisiana Gas. The people who run that company would be sent to pocket three megabucks and go to the Bahamas. That money also would have been converted into work.
Where are all these non-billions nobody has? A lot of them have been borrowed by cash-hunting corporations who figure it's not worth it to invest in rates because they're going to be worse next week. The men money couldn't believe it when the prime interest rate went over 12, but now it's on its way over 13. And anyway, can you borrow? Interest rates are tax deductible.
Senate Committee Releases Report
Recommends Election Reform, Permanent Prosecutor
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Watergate committee, which expelled the dimensions of the nation's greatest political crisis, said it was ready.
The seven-man panel—officially named the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities—expired over the weekend with the release of its 2.215-page finalizing “one of America's most tragic happenings.”
As preventive medicine, the members unanimously recommended a massive overhaul of federal election laws, creation of a permanent independent prosecutor's office and speculation that its power to violate a constitution without due process.
The aftermath of the June 17, 1972, break-in at Democratic national headquarters in the Watergate, the committee said, was "characterized by corruption, fraud and abuse of official power."
The report summarized the abuses uncovered in
nationally televised hearings last year and officially presented the panel's findings in its investigation of various campaign financing activities and misuse of government power for political purposes.
Although virtually all of the final report had been made public or leaked to the press in various forms, the official document eliminated most of the conclusions drawn by the staff when drafting the report's 11 separate sections.
Whereas steering clear of judging allegations that the president had raised milk-support prices in exchange for commodities, Mr. Clinton has not.
said administration officials "provided circumstances that were rine for abuse."
In the Watergate break-in and cover-up section of the report, the committee wore together the testimony of John W. Dean III and the White House-edited transcripts of President Nixon's Watergate conversations to show that a massive conspiracy to obstruct justice reached the highest levels of government.
Although it charged no illegality in the financial affairs of Nixon friend C. G. "Bebe" Rebozo, the report traced nearly $5,000 in 1986 campaign funds from Rebozo to a New York bank, where he was also present from her, husband, a pair of diamond earrings.
"Probably the most significant reform that could emerge from the Watergate scandal," the committee said, would be creation of a nonpartisan Federal Elections Commission to investigate campaign abuses and enforce election laws.
Noting that special prosecutors were named to investigate both the Teapot Dome and Watergate scandals, the Senate panel suggested that a similar position be created as a permanent deterrent to official misconduct.
INFLATION PRODUCES a general giddiness, a Klondike psychology of ease-come, easy-go in which nobody can have value of anything and therefore it is not important anything of value. cheap goods and shortcuts. Pan American airlines is even on the radio with a commercial saying its prices to Europe are no bargain compared to last year, but you might as well go because in 10 years you will be paying $5 for an ice cream cone.
To prevent future "Plumbers" operations, we would bar the president from establishing any special insurer in our state. We should consent.
In times when we were still arrogant enough to believe we knew how to "fine tune" the economy, one of the ways inflation was bridled was by shrinking the money supply, an act accomplished by the Reserve Board's taking away the credit it issued and funny money into the major banks. This is not working this time, at least not yet.
With money scarce, the price of borrowing has flung itself skyward. Why doesn't the Board put more funny money into the banking system, thereby allowing it to grow? The cost of borrowing it will go down? The answer is that lenders will then conclude the dollar bill is being made even funnier yet and will demand higher interest rates to protect themselves against the erosion of the value of their loans. We are in a position where borrowers have always existed, but it hasn't operated before for many reasons, not the least of
which is that Wall Street cliche term "investor confidence."
A society such as ours breeds a permanent bysterical sensitivity about money. Strangers tell you tell about their sex lives but true intimacy is exchanging personal feelings. You can do this by pointing of despising material values still find it hard to escape the money anxiety, an anxiety that can only be assuaged by not knowing how tippy our fiscal system is in the best of times, and by doing the same things with their money that everybody else does. We know that sophisticated money managers handle together like ice on an ice霜 for that feeling of security.
For the people at the beaches and in the mountains, it is another golden Eisenhower summer. But the men of money are sweating out expedients in these hot months and wondering what will happen after Labor Day.
School Board Elects Officers For Next Year
Larry A. Hatfield, 1020 Lawrence Ave., was elected president of the Lawrence Board of Education last night. Hatfield has been president of the school board the past year.
Dr. Helen Gilless, lecturer in occupational therapy and retiring school board staff.
Joan Brown, 3514 W. 8 Court, was appointed clerk of the board and Kenneth Fisher, 2808 Maine Court, was appointed treasurer.
Olin Petchin, 1508 Crescent Road, was designated as the board attorney. KLWN radio and the Lawrence Journal-World news media was media for the Lawrence school district.
All resignations and elections of certified and classified employees were approved as submitted, as were the report of the treasurer and the superintendent.
The board changed its meeting time from the first and third Mondays of each month to the second and fourth Mondays of each month so that monthly financial reports could be available by the first meeting each month.
KU Diners Disagree About Quality of Union Food
Kansan Staff Reporter
By MARIAN HORVAT
The North Cafeteria shares a large eating area with the Delicatessen and Salad Bar, the largest grocery store in the city.
The five major eating places in the Union are the North Cafeteria, the Prairie Room, the Hawk's Nest, the Delicatessen and the River City Salad Bar.
Jokes abound on campus about inedible meals in the Union, yet the people who eat lunch there are in general agreement that the food is not only edible, but good.
THE SALAD BAR is the only place to eat in the union as I'm concerned. *Betsy Henry,*
*Johnny Doyle*, and *David E. Horn*.
"I stay away from the cafeteria line. The food there doesn't taste too good," said Beverly Tubby, union bookstore employee." But the salad and fruit menu are good. The prices are pretty comfortably too."
Complaints about food prices and quality were not addressed in documents concerning the North Caterina and the Deli.
"the only complaint I have is that sometimes the cool Whip turrs sour," said her husband, Roger, an engineer at the university.
"The cateraese food tastes like it came out of a can," said Larry Hoyle, Lawrence graduate student. "I think they should take advantage of the juicy fruit and fruits rather than the more institutional food."
"The salad bar was a step in the right direction," he said.
THE DO-TY-IT YOUR SALAD BAR gets very few complaints, according to Judy Winter, Hutchinson College.
"It's more nutritious and fresher, not like the package foods downstairs," she said.
The only problem, Winter said, was the long lines during the noon hour, which are caused by the
lengthy time it takes for each person to concoct his own salad.
Tom Beisecker, associate professor of speech and a member of the Union Board of Directors, was the chairman of the subcommittee several years ago that initiated the Deli and Salad Bar.
"The prices are fine," he said, "particularly in the delicatessen area. Students are getting more sandwich for the money than they ought to be getting."
The Hawk's Nest and the Prairie Room share an area in the sub-basement, and each has a distinct shape.
THE HAWK'S NEST, which has formica tabletopes and a noisy ham of activity is in contrast to the Prairie Room, which has red tabletopes and a quiet atmosphere and reds to the tables in a quiet and sedate atmosphere.
Lunchers in the Prairie Room gave ready compliments to the service and the food. The major
complaint from customers was that there wasn't enough variety.
William Griffith and Robert Gilmore, professors of history, and Art Cogrove, visiting associate professor of history from Ireland, said they ate in the Prairie Room every day.
"The atmosphere is more pleasant," Griffith said, "and for institutional food. it's very good."
Griffith and Glmore agreed that the prices were reasonable for a university eating place that wasn't so expensive.
The black sheep of the Union restaurants was the Hawk's Nest, which bore the bruit of the criticisms. One Lawrence resident, who said he ate at the Hawk's Nest only as a last resort, described the hamburgers and hot dogs as "pretty bad" and the beef and ham as "edible."
MIKE RETTIG, Wichita senior, said the coat exceeded the quality of food offered in the Hawk's food pantry.
However, Richard Snyder, a participant in a life
insurance marketing institute program on campus, said the food was "real good."
"I eaten them three times," Snyder said. "The food tasted good in 1858 and it tasted good in 1956. It is delicious."
"THE FUNCTION of the Union food service is to make available the highest quality and greatest quantity of food and beverages consistent with a plan that includes said Frank Burge, director of the Kansas Union."
Burge said the north Cafeteria line was in the process of remodeling to make it faster and more efficient.
Mariam Schoetz assumed duties as new food service manager of the Kansas University yesterday. Schoetz has had seven years in management experience at the University of Delaware,
"I visited several other colleges on the East Coast," Scheetz said. "And I was most impressed with the student union building here, which is one of the nicest I've seen."
3 Babies Conceived In Test Tubes Born
LONDON (AP)—Three babies conceived in laboratory test tubes and then implanted in women's wombs have been born in the UK, a British gynecologist revealed yesterday.
Douglas Bevis, a professor at Leeds University, said that to his knowledge the births were the first of their kind in the world.
The feat opens the way to successful childbearing by women whose fallopian tubes are blocked, if the procedure can be controlled. It also raises ethical questions.
The babies were conceived in the test tube with eggs taken from the mother's womb and fertilized with male sperm, then put into a glass incubator at a laboratory for about a week. Bevis said.
Retired KU Prof Relates Full Life
Bevis did not say specifically that the sperm came from the husbands of the
women, but listeners said they assumed from the context of his remark that it did
In the United States, a leading authority on the subject, Dr. Leon R. Kass, physician and biochemist, said the announcement was not particularly surprising because of the high cost of the field and because fertilization in the laboratory had been done for about four years.
All three babies are alive and do not have any apparent abnormalities. Bevis said.
By DONNA HOWELL
Kansan Staff Reporter
Keeping basy is part of the secret to a long life, according to 86-year-old Edward H. Taylor, University of Kansas professor emeritus of zoology.
He has recently written his memoirs, and the book is now in the hands of an editor. He said this book would focus on his travels and explorations in strange lands.
Taylor, a 1912 KU graduate, has had a busy life.
Taylor was born in 1889 in Mysyell, Mo.
He came to KU in 1898, was graduated in
"As I told my friends, I was hunting for adventure," he said.
1912, and then went to the Philippine Islands.
The United States government, which had taken over the Philippine Islands from Spain, had hired him and assigned him to the island of Mindanao. His orders were to stop a tribe called Manobos from head hunting.
"For my first few year in the Philippines, I lived with the head hunters," he said.
Vada Pinson then singled, and Cookie Rojas was hit by a pitch, loading the bases. Amos Guts ended the inning by lining out. Carl Yastazemki hit a home run off waiver line and Rojas out in the fourth for Boston's first run. The Red Sox scored again in the eighth.
A double by Fran Hanley sent Solitaire to third. Brett, the Royals' rookie third baseman, doubled and came home on Frank White's single.
KANASS CITY (AP) -George Brett highlighted a three-run second inning with a two-run, to help the Kansas City Royals beat the Red Boston Sox 3-2 last
Head hunting, he said, is primarily inter-
Red Sox Lose To Royals, 3-2
The Royals scored their runs off losing pitcher Pitigher Cleveland, 7-7. Their winning rally started on a two-out walk to Tony Romo before the next five men reached bases.
He said, however, that farther south on Mindanao was a tribe that reportedly cut the livers of out dead men and divided them among themselves to eat.
In Mindanao, Taylor started a school for the teen-age sons of the warring cheftains, so they could become friends. The curryman, he said, was baseball and corn growing.
trivial warfare. The Manobos were not cannibals, but they chopped off the heads of men they killed and collected them. A number of many heads was very famous. Taylor said.
Livestock Loan Bill to Be Debated
Once, in order to clear the land for corn growing, Taylor had to chop down a banyan tree. This tree was believed by the Manobos to be the kitchen of their god, Madalingan.
Taylor served in World War I and World War II. In World War I, he was stationed in Siberia during the great typhus epidemic and as a civilian relief worker.
Taylor was in the Philippines for eight years. After leaving the head hunters, he lived in Manila, where for two years he was chief of the fisheries. The rest of the time he was a professor and head of the zoology department at the University in Manila. He spent part of that time exploring and looking for animals.
He was in Japanese-occupied Malaya during the Allied invasion and was in Java during the Korean War.
WASHINGTON (AP)—Assorted opposition forces continued to solicit support yesterday for their moves to defeat or sharply amend the proposed $2 billion emergency program of guaranteed loans for livestock producers.
Later, whenever anything bad would happen, Taylor said, the Manobone would send it to her.
Rep. Peter A. Peyser, R-N.Y., a life insurance executive, plans to lead urban representatives against what he terms a "bank bonanza bill." It would bail out banks and other investors in tax shelters "who made ill-advised investments in an inflated housing industry during a period of unprecedented high prices last summer," he said.
Taylor said he thought he had discovered 50 years ago the tribe of primitive cave people, the Tasaday, who were discovered in 1972 in the Philippines. He said he had
The House hill, significantly different from a version passed by the Senate, is scheduled for an hour's debate and then a vote today.
CONTRIBUTING to the price declines at the farm level have been high meat production that led to a continuing glut in the meat supply line.
THE MEASURE grew out of pleas from the cattle industry that a steep slate in live animal prices, along with: a sharp climb in feed and other farm costs, were driving many ranches and farmers, especially out of business. The declines began last fall.
That has continued as retail prices have responded statistically much slower to the increase in prices.
High supermarket prices contributed to a drop in U.S. consumer demand for beef.
The House bill would establish a one-year program of initial loans and refinancing for anyone directly engaged in breeding, raising, fattening or marketing beef and dairy cattle, swine, sheep, goats, chickens and turkeys.
owned by "primarily involved" livestock ranchers and farmers. They also have an amendment lowering the individual limit to $250,000.
The government would guarantee up to 80 per cent of the loan's principal and interest, which would be at the prevailing local market rate for the bank lending the money. The loans would be repaid over three years with a two-year renewal allowed.
discovered some extremely primitive people about 15 miles from where Tisady were
In addition to Peyser and his urban colleagues, a group of Great Plains states House members plans to offer amendments that don't have 50 per cent of the stock that don't have 50 per cent of their stock.
Loans would be made only to maintain the borrowers' operations, but partnerships and corporations would be eligible, too. However, the $500,000 individual loan limit allows for the feeding operations of only a small, 750-bed operator, the Agriculture Committee said.
The Agriculture Department, which opposes the bill, projects a default rate of about five per cent—$30 million worth—but that would be said it would be "substantially less."
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He said that they did not have to limit enrollment on a basis of physical space and that because of the flexibility of engineering schools, he would continue to offer standard classes.
Smith said the increase in enrollment for next year was part of a national trend. He said enrollment numbers continually seeawed according to the availability of jobs.
Charles H. Kahn, dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Design, said that his school was underfunded but that he was not distressed.
"I'm not making a big issue out of it," he said. The University has shown they will make re-allocations when they can, he said. Edward P. Bassett, dean of the School of Business, told me that need of re-allocation was needed, but no machinery existed to make it possible.
Vice chancellor Saricks seemed to agree.
He said that the School of Journalism was continuing to grow and that some professors there are beginning to retire.
Following World War I, Taylor returned to the Philippines, and in 1924, came back to the United States. After one year teaching at a junior college in Kansas City, Missouri, he moved to Texas where he until he retired in 1960. From 1946 until his retirement he was curator of herpetology, the study of reptiles and amphibians, and ichthyology, the study of fish, crustaceans, and invertebrates. He was also editor of the University of Kansas Science Bulletin for 15 years.
But as long s the set formula of 15 unclassified positions to each undergraduate student is maintained, the University must ensure that students gain the increase of enrollment, he said.
"We are trying to maintain quality at a time when the general atmosphere seems to be very unpredictable."
Bassett said that the University needed to find another method of allocation but that he wouldn't want to see a quota system established.
sophisticated sacks that agreed to agree. "I get a shock," he said, as pressure gets around that we have to count student credit hours," he said. "I would want academic matters be decided on an annual basis."
From 1958 to 1959 he worked in Thailand for the Thai government.
Even in retirement he has been a busy man. He has done much traveling, has collected numerous animals and has had articles and books published.
He has discovered 40 of the 150 known types of caecilians, which are amphibians. He has written a book about the caecilians, which once had arms and legs, but lost them as they moved to underground habitats. The book is now available at the telegrae and resemble spikes in appearance.
He has also discovered a few types of flying lizards and has studied and written books about snakes, amphibians and turtles.
Since his retirement, he has been abroad nearly eight years, studying and trailing.
"If you keep your strength and mind, it's not bad living this long," he said.